A house that optimizes resources. Röhrig House by Studio Hertweck
14/10/2020.
[Sinzig-Westum] Germany
metalocus, MARÍA ANASTIDAS
metalocus, MARÍA ANASTIDAS
Studio Hertweck, led by Florian Hertweck architect, was commissioned to design the Röhrig House is part of a series of hillside houses in Sinzig, a town in the district of Ahrweiler, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The urban area is situated in the Rhine Valley, about 5 km south-east of Remagen and 25 km south-east of Bonn.
The house is located on a steep slope on the edge of the buildable land of city. The client, a young family with one child, asked to have big interior and exterior shared areas, in combination with a rather classical program: two children's bedrooms, a home office, a parents' bedroom, and two bathrooms.
The house is located on a steep slope on the edge of the buildable land of city. The client, a young family with one child, asked to have big interior and exterior shared areas, in combination with a rather classical program: two children's bedrooms, a home office, a parents' bedroom, and two bathrooms.
Röhrig House by Studio Hertweck. Photograph by Bildpark / Veit Landwehr.
Röhrig House by Studio Hertweck. Photograph by Bildpark / Veit Landwehr.
Röhrig House by Studio Hertweck. Photograph by Bildpark / Veit Landwehr.
Röhrig House by Studio Hertweck. Photograph by Bildpark / Veit Landwehr.
Röhrig House by Studio Hertweck. Photograph by Bildpark / Veit Landwehr.
Röhrig House by Studio Hertweck. Photograph by Bildpark / Veit Landwehr.
Röhrig House by Studio Hertweck. Photograph by Bildpark / Veit Landwehr.
Röhrig House by Studio Hertweck. Photograph by Bildpark / Veit Landwehr.
Röhrig House by Studio Hertweck. Photograph by Bildpark / Veit Landwehr.
Röhrig House by Studio Hertweck. Photograph by Bildpark / Veit Landwehr.
Röhrig House by Studio Hertweck. Photograph by Bildpark / Veit Landwehr.
Röhrig House by Studio Hertweck. Photograph by Bildpark / Veit Landwehr.
Röhrig House by Studio Hertweck. Photograph by Bildpark / Veit Landwehr.
Röhrig House by Studio Hertweck. Photograph by Bildpark / Veit Landwehr.
Röhrig House by Studio Hertweck. Photograph by Bildpark / Veit Landwehr.
Röhrig House by Studio Hertweck. Photograph by Bildpark / Veit Landwehr.
Access floor plan. Röhrig House by Studio Hertweck.
First floor plan. Röhrig House by Studio Hertweck.
Second floor plan. Röhrig House by Studio Hertweck.
Third floor plan. Röhrig House by Studio Hertweck.
Studio Hertweck designed a program in an economic way, inscribing a cube into the slope. Garage and storage rooms were accommodated on the ground floor, the children's bedrooms with a bathroom on the first floor. On the second floor, an open living area was created, which opens onto a terrace towards the valley and at the back onto a garden. On the third floor, the architect located the parents' area with their bedroom, bathroom, and home office.
To developed the economy of the project even further, Studio Hertweck designed a single shaft in the center of the cube which contains all the networks of the house.
To developed the economy of the project even further, Studio Hertweck designed a single shaft in the center of the cube which contains all the networks of the house.
Project description by Studio Hertweck
The Röhrig House is part of a series of hillside houses designed by Studio Hertweck in the German Rhine Valley. It is located on a steep slope on the edge of the buildable land of Sinzig-Westum, a German municipality between Bonn and Koblenz. The client, a young family with one child, wanted to have generous interior and exterior shared areas, in combination with a rather classical program: two children's bedrooms, a home office, a parents' bedroom, and two bathrooms.
In order to translate this program in an economic way, Studio Hertweck has inscribed a very simple cube into the slope. Garage and storage rooms were accommodated on the ground floor, the children's bedrooms with a bathroom on the first floor. On the second floor, an open living area was created, which opens onto a terrace towards the valley and at the back onto a garden. On the third floor, the architect located the parents' area with their bedroom, bathroom, and home office.
The garden has been connected to the roof terrace by a set of terraces and outside stairs so that people can walk around the house while opening up beautiful views of the landscape. The reduction in terms of materials and the use of unfinished double-shell in-situ concrete walls not only has aesthetic value but also enabled the architect to dispense with some trades such as plastering or scaffolding.
To push the economy of the project even further, Studio Hertweck designed a single shaft in the center of the cube which contains all the networks of the house: from electric cables to water pipes, from the chimney flue to the laundry chute. All the technical appliances and sanitary equipment are arranged around this shaft so that they can be connected exclusively to it. The house is designed so that there are no thermal bridges and is heated by an air-water heat pump.
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Architects
Studio Hertweck. Florian Hertweck & Pierre Alexandre Devernois.
Project team
F. Hertweck, Ira Matheis, Loïc Morin.
Collaborators
Structural Engineer.- Stelio Berikaki, Sinzig.
Technical Supervision of the construction.- Ira Matheis, Architect, Remagen.
Area Superficie
182 m².
Dates
Planning Phase.- 2014-2015. Construction Phase.- 2016-2020.
Construction Type
Sandwich Concrete Walls 16/14/20, Concrete slabs, Timber/aluminum windows.
Photography
Bildpark / Veit Landwehr, Cologne.
Florian Hertweck. Studio Hertweck
Studio Hertweck is a creative laboratory established by Florian Hertweck. An architecture firm with an international network of outstanding experts in various fields, from landscape architecture to climatic engineering, who regularly come together for innovative designs and the realization of various projects, from the scale of the architectural object to the neighborhood, and territorial strategies.
Florian Hertweck is an architect with more than 15 years of practice in architecture and urban design at various scales. He holds a PhD in the history of arts and is full professor at the University of Luxembourg, where he chairs the master programme “Architecture, European Urbanisation, Globalisation” (www.masterarchitecture.lu).
In 2018 he curated, together with Andrea Rumpf, the Luxembourg Pavilion for the 16th Architecture Biennial in Venice, for which he co-edited the accompanying Arch+ “The Property Issue. Ground Control and the Commons”.
Since 2018, Hertweck is leading, together with Milica Topalovic from ETH Zurich, a consortium of researchers and planners for the development of a territorial design strategy for Greater Geneva 2050. He is currently working on a book on the land property issue and its relation to the very essence of urbanism and architecture.
Hertweck’s major publications include: Positions on Emancipation. Architecture between Aesthetics and Politics (Lars Müller Publishers 2018, together with Nikos Katsikis), Dialogic City. Berlin wird Berlin (Walther König Verlag 2015, with Arno Brandlhuber and Thomas Mayfried); the critical edition of Oswald Mathias Ungers’ and Rem Koolhaas’ The city in the city. Berlin: a Green Archipelago (Lars Müller Publishers 2013, with Sébastien Marot); Climat(s) (Infolio, 2012, with Thierry Mandoul, Jac Fol and Virginie Lefebvre); Der Berliner Architekturstreit (Gebr. Mann Verlag 2010).
Florian Hertweck is an architect with more than 15 years of practice in architecture and urban design at various scales. He holds a PhD in the history of arts and is full professor at the University of Luxembourg, where he chairs the master programme “Architecture, European Urbanisation, Globalisation” (www.masterarchitecture.lu).
In 2018 he curated, together with Andrea Rumpf, the Luxembourg Pavilion for the 16th Architecture Biennial in Venice, for which he co-edited the accompanying Arch+ “The Property Issue. Ground Control and the Commons”.
Since 2018, Hertweck is leading, together with Milica Topalovic from ETH Zurich, a consortium of researchers and planners for the development of a territorial design strategy for Greater Geneva 2050. He is currently working on a book on the land property issue and its relation to the very essence of urbanism and architecture.
Hertweck’s major publications include: Positions on Emancipation. Architecture between Aesthetics and Politics (Lars Müller Publishers 2018, together with Nikos Katsikis), Dialogic City. Berlin wird Berlin (Walther König Verlag 2015, with Arno Brandlhuber and Thomas Mayfried); the critical edition of Oswald Mathias Ungers’ and Rem Koolhaas’ The city in the city. Berlin: a Green Archipelago (Lars Müller Publishers 2013, with Sébastien Marot); Climat(s) (Infolio, 2012, with Thierry Mandoul, Jac Fol and Virginie Lefebvre); Der Berliner Architekturstreit (Gebr. Mann Verlag 2010).
